Jamal

I get 30% of my knowledge about Jewish culture from Hanover.

Plymouth Rock! See, I do know some American history, even if it's inauthentic.

Is that Chicago, Kansas or Chicago, Zimbabwe? At least it's not just a fly-over state. Driving thru, you can stop to have a look at the rock in a cage...

I didn't have oysters when I was there, because I found an excellent Israeli restaurant, and I'd never been to an Israeli restaurant before, so I ate ...

Thanks for this, I didn't know about this word. But is Kansas really such a bad state to get stuck in?

In fact it does very mildly annoy me when I'm looking for information about a place and Google gives me information about some American city. Recently...

In an ideal world this would inspire others, leading Moscow, Kansas to invade Moscow, Russia, for example.

Sounds great, but I just don't know if there's time in this life for two Georgias. I have to choose.

Good. What about Uzbek restaurants, got any of them?

I recommend pkhali, and chashushuli. The latter is full of fenugreek so tastes kind of Indian. Of course there’s khachapuri and khinkali, but there’s ...

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So is their food. Who wraps cheese in cheese? https://georgiaabout.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/cottage-cheese-with-mint-wrapped-in-sulguni-copy-copy.j...

No, not yet. I just enjoy Georgia from afar by going to their restaurants and reading about Stalin.

Above capybaras? :brow:

I’ve seen black squirrels in Alberta and Kabardino-Balkaria.

Review of "Canceling Comedians While the World Burns"

Banned Windbag, who was a returning banned member.

I don't know who mentioned it but note that you can in fact see who has upvoted a post, by hovering over the number to the left of the heart icon. EDI...

This is not self-hosted software, so I don't see how.

That's kind of how I feel about it too. People keep going on about Facebook. But there's more to the internet than Facebook et al, and I think there a...

First one's from Gilligan's Island, I think. Never seen it though. I don't know the others but they seem familiar somehow.

Yes, I was thinking along those lines. It could stand in for the social pressure that in real life motivates you to behave well and present your best....

Long-tailed tit, maybe.

I think condors, vultures, and at least one other eagle are bigger.

Great news. Harpy eagle?

I'm glad you asked! In order of increasing coolness: Iridescent plumage Mimicry (I have heard them mimicking car alarms and other everyday human noise...

They were not in the championship. And the Andorrans are notoriously bloodthirsty.

There was an inexplicable craze for it some years ago. I kept mine because I do like starlings a lot.

Has to be Finland.

Nah, they participated in running the British Empire, as did the Scots.

Wales?

If there had been a trophy for the most historically blameless country taking part in the Euros, who would have won?

Banned @"Protagoras". As well as being a low quality poster and troublemaker, he was likely a returning banned member, although he denied it.

I used to live downwind of the whisky distillery in Edinburgh. On some days the air smelled like Shreddies (malted breakfast cereal). I like Shreddies...

We can't customize this software. It'll be possible when we move on to something else, something self-hosted. It's all or nothing. Maybe we'll just tu...

Good points. I must stay away from whisky in future.

Exactly. Humans find every possible way of disappointing me.

Or do I mean substantive? :chin:

This is all too substantial for the shoutbox

This. It's a common narrative in the West, that conflicts such as these, and in the former Yugoslavia too, for example, are the expression of ancient ...

Original post. In other contexts it can also mean Original poster, meaning the person who writes the original post. By the way, when you google "what ...

In my younger days this kind of thing could lead to unhealthy and painful obsessiveness if I thought about it too much afterwards. There's really noth...

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It doesn't.

As if the world is better or worse according to the number of good guys and bad guys.

I don't even think it need be seen as spiritual. Respect for the dead is simply humane, or human. It's in all cultures and expresses the basic thought...

It's not. So it's not.

Good to see you Mayor.

Same here, and I've been in a Hal Smith rabbit hole for the last 7 minutes.

That's just a normal day for me here in Russia.